As the title states, Atom Helper has been eating up a ton of memory on my 2014 Macbook Pro. I tried removing all my Community Packages and this didn’t solve anything. Since then I’ve added the git-tab-support package back in as it didn’t seem to be part of the problem.

Uploading Sample and several screen caps in the hope that they’ll help! (sample file isn’t accepted, so I’ll just create reply with the raw text)